Program TIFF 2026

An elderly goat herder in the mountains of Namaqualand, South Africa, falls victim to a scam promising long-overdue reparations for her father’s WWII service. As she waits for money that will never come, the disruptions of her 80th birthday threaten to strip away the last of her independence. Structured as a series of recurring visual ‘variations’, the film transforms repetition into revelation to frame a portrait of waiting, endurance, and loss.

Viv, a Chinese artist wannabe, got stuck in Berlin after the pandemic and accidentally ventured into the vibrant alternative culture scene. To someone who was raised to follow “the standard”, everything seems so exciting. But to her family in China, the most alarming question surfaces: “why is she such an oddball?” Drifting between new environments and traditional expectations, Viv is constantly adapting to shifting opinions about herself, the world, and of course, China, only to feel more lost than ever.

Wong Tak-chung is an unmatched investigator, but he retired some time ago, as profession made him the target of ruthless criminals. When a series of spectacular robberies catches the Macau authorities off guard, they turn to the expert for help, but his mission proves more complicated than expected.

Alienated teenager Enid drifts through the final summer after high school with her best friend Rebecca. As their friendship begins to fracture, Enid becomes fascinated by a lonely middle-aged man...

Four siblings on the verge of adulthood try to build their independent lives without losing the bonds that connect them. The youngest, Benek, struggles with rejection from an older brother who was once his best friend and who now isolates himself from his family while dealing with problems with his girlfriend, drugs, and himself....See more details

Pelu is a 30-something barely scraping by on his salary as a projectionist at a film theater that belongs to the city hall. After losing his job due to budget cuts, he agrees to stay on as the night watchman, but he ends up secretly living inside the cinema, surrounded by the films he watches every night....See more details

Antonia is fuming. She is pregnant and the man who slept with her is getting married in a few hours to another woman. Antonia decides to search out her rival and confront her... A film made in a single shot, exactly as its Double Takes partner, Romanian production 3 Days in September!

This deeply personal documentary captures several years in the lives of four family members. Pepa, the director, records on an iPhone and tries to understand why their beloved older brother and cousins live unhoused and experience substance addiction. Unsentimentally, the film traces the causes and fallout of addiction, asking where love ends, control begins, and what respect truly demands: to save, or to let go.

Fifteen-year-old Malou grows up in a small town with her two brothers and their mother. She excels at the local rowing club, but also gets bullied by her teammates. While her mother is trying to start dating again, the one person she can turn to is her older brother Max. But when Malou has a crush on Max’s new girlfriend Nouria, her life is turned upside down.

Roy Cohen, an Israeli filmmaker of Arab-Jewish descent, addresses his Palestinian friend Aseel Asleh, killed by Israeli police in their youth, through an intimate cinematic dialogue across time. Revisiting their shared past at a peace camp in Maine, he confronts memory, friendship and the ongoing violence shaping the present, using letters, archives and conversations to explore loss, moral responsibility and the collapse of a once-possible future of coexistence.